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Thousands of Muslims rally against extremism in London

LONDON: Thousands of Muslims gathered together for a peace rally to commemorate
the 10th anniversary of September 11 attacks, expressing their condemnation of terrorism
and extremism.

The Peace for Humanity conference has been organised by the Islamic group Minhaj-ul-Quran,
which is also launching a campaign to get one million people to sign an online declaration
of peace by 2012.

Islam is against terrorism, a leading Islamic scholar told the 12000-strong gathering
at Wembley.

Islamic scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said the conference will send a message
that 10 years of extremist activity should end.

"We should strive together, to bring an end to the era of extremist terrorism
so that the peace and love and fraternity - which is lost because of unfortunate
extremistic activity in the last decade - should come to end and we may restore
the peace, love and smiles on the faces of mankind," Tahir-ul- Qadri, the founder
of Minhaj-ul-Quran, said.